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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Recycling centre issues',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/09/06.jpg" alt="A heart reflector one a post" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="health">
	<h2>Health</h2>
	<p>
		Either my measurements continue to be inconsistent, or I&apos;ve grown a centimetre.
		I measured in at 125 centimetres in circumference this morning.
		In my defence though, I forgot to measure before breakfast this time, so that may have messed with the measurement.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="computer">
	<h2>Mother&apos;s computer</h2>
	<p>
		My mother wrote to me this morning asking for help with her new computer.
		She &quot;couldn&apos;t get it online&quot;.
		I wasn&apos;t sure whether she mean get the system up (as in she couldn&apos;t turn the machine on) or couldn&apos;t get it to connect to the Internet, but either way, without looking at the machine, I had a diagnosis.
		Either the cords weren&apos;t put in correctly, keeping it from powering on, or it had no Wi-Fi card, keeping it from connecting to the Internet.
		So I headed over to fix the problem.
		It turned out to be the latter, which was what I was expecting more.
		I got ready to move my Wi-Fi card that ended up in her old machine from said old machine to the new one, but I encountered that idiotic warranty seal the recycling centre likes to put on their machines.
		I couldn&apos;t install a basic and essential Wi-Fi card!
	</p>
	<p>
		My mother decided to telephone the recycling centre, who had told her the machine was Wi-Fi capable.
		That&apos;s her solution to everything: telephone someone.
		She would have telephoned me this morning had I not been lucky enough not to have telephone service.
		Anyway, the recycling centre told her they they don&apos;t sell desktop machines with Wi-Fi cards and that she would have to buy a Wi-Fi dongle to get online.
		That&apos;s just idiotic.
		I get that they don&apos;t sell Wi-Fi cards as part of their deal, but a dongle isn&apos;t the right way to get Wi-Fi.
		They&apos;re easily bumped and damage the $a[USB] ports when they are.
		Besides, there&apos;s a limited number of $a[USB] ports and there&apos;s more $a[PCI] slots in the back than you&apos;ll probably ever use.
		Besides, I think the $a[PCI] Wi-Fi cards are a lot faster, though I could be wrong about that.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, my mother looked to me for responses, and soon tagged me in altogether.
		Asking the appropriate questions, I got them to spill that they disallow service of their machines by end users, but if we wanted to pay an estimated fifteen dollar fee, they&apos;d install the Wi-Fi card for us.
		The more I deal with this recycling centre, the less I like them.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The last time I was majorly sick, I had headaches and didn&apos;t really want to get out of bed.
			When I did get up, nausea would often set in until I&apos;d drag myself back to bed, making it go away again for a while.
			I blamed my then-poor diet.
			I&apos;d been under a huge amount of stress after this university had thrown a couple threats at me and demanded that I censor my website.
			After I complied with their demands and replied to them as such, I never heard back.
			Not even so much as a &quot;thank you for your cooperation, you&apos;re in the clear now&quot;.
			I was a depressed and fearful lump for several weeks, and didn&apos;t have the energy to put together decent meals.
			That had to be the problem, right?
			So I started forcing myself to eat better.
			It didn&apos;t help though.
		</p>
		<p>
			I came to realise that my diet, although poor, wasn&apos;t the problem.
			The school had thrown threats at me without first even <strong>*trying*</strong> to talk things out reasonably.
			It showed me that they really weren&apos;t on my side.
			I was alone when it comes to my education; the support network I though I had here had been a lie.
			And now, I had the fear of the school carrying out their threats even though I&apos;d complied with their demands, as they didn&apos;t even acknowledge that I&apos;d done so like someone even remotely civil would do.
			Finally, I was now under censorship.
			I&apos;ve always believed censorship to be a great evil, and now I was experiencing it first hand.
			Let me tell you: it&apos;s incredibly stressful and not being allowed to properly express yourself eats away at the core of your being.
			I&apos;ve been crushed, mentally and emotionally, by the experience.
			While I used to enjoy my coursework here at the university, I now dread each coming term.
			I&apos;ve recovered from the headaches and nausea, and I&apos;m back to having the energy to cook decent meals again.
			I still feel drained when I even think about doing coursework though, and it&apos;s often a struggle to meet deadlines.
			Often times, the only thing that keeps me from giving up is the thought that this won&apos;t last forever.
			After this term, I&apos;ll only have two more years left.
		</p>
		<p>
			Like Ogden said, health can affect mental state, but mental state can also affect health (Ogden, 2017).
			I&apos;ve experienced that first hand; this hasn&apos;t been the only time I&apos;ve noticed the impact of mental state on health, just the latest example.
			It goes both ways too.
			A healthy mental state promotes a healthy body as well.
			Why do you think mental state has such a strong effect on physical health?
			I mean, this is pretty much how placebos work too.
			They give you hope, and it&apos;s that hope that actually helps with what ails you.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Ogden, J. (2017). The Psychology of Health and Illness: An Open Access Course. Retrieved from <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/326138/mod_book/chapter/166764/Ogden-The_psychology_of_health_and_illness.pdf"><code>https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/326138/mod_book/chapter/166764/Ogden-The_psychology_of_health_and_illness.pdf</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
		<h3>Comments</h3>
		<p>
			The discussion instructions say to cite two of our assigned readings, but I find I&apos;m unable to do that.
			Two of our three reading assignments are on a website that blocks me.
			Early this morning, I tried visiting the website and got this error message:
		</p>
		<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./coursework/PSYC1111/error0.png" alt="Access denied" class="framed-centred-image" width="819" height="774"/>
		<p>
			I tried later in the evening from another location and the site started redirecting me to a different error page:
		</p>
		<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./coursework/PSYC1111/error1.png" alt="Access denied" class="framed-centred-image" width="962" height="538"/>
		<p>
			The website is blocking certain $a[IP] addresses, and there&apos;s nothing I can do about it.
			My guess is that it&apos;s incorrectly assuming that $a[IP] addresses from which a lot of traffic originates must be bad, though in my case, it&apos;s simply because lots of people are using the same $a[IP] addresses as me.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="EUGLUG">
	<h2>$a[EUGLUG] meeting</h2>
	<p>
		I showed up at the meeting location, but the door was locked.
		I waited about ten minutes, until another member showed up, and we waited together ten more minutes.
		No one else arrived and they vaguely remembered this week&apos;s meeting getting called off at last week&apos;s meeting.
		So we went home.
		I was never told this though.
	</p>
	<p>
		I actually forgot to bring my torch this week though, so going home early prevented me from having to bike home in the dark.
	</p>
</section>
END
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